Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

So I was fine.

And I didn't really care.

The right hemisphere doesn't really care.

I mean, it's...

thinks life's great, it's cool.

I was motivated, but it had no information to be able to attach myself to normal reality and do what I needed to do, engage in any way I needed to engage in order to take the steps to orchestrate my rescue.

But between I waffled in and out of these two hemispheres, fortunately, I did not have fear, but I did know I was in grave danger.

And after I'd finally made the phone call, I got on my butt and I went down my steps and I unlocked my door and I just curled up into a little fetal ball.

And I just heard inside my own mind, I heard myself saying,

hold on, hold on.

And then I kept thinking, what am I holding on to?

What does that even mean?

Hold on.

And it was like, don't leave the body.

As soon as I'm out of the body, I felt like,

I had become so disabled over a course of four hours that I was afraid that if I went unconscious, then I would never be able to get this body to work again because in the consciousness of the right hemisphere, I literally was energetically as big as the universe.

Because we are energy and there's no boundaries in the energy.

And when you're connected to all that is, then it is that which becomes of interest.

And in that expansive openness, there were no details saying, oh my God, I'm going to die, you know, and all that.

I felt like I would be gone.